On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:12:50AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > > > > > can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or > > > > perhaps some other insight? > > > > > > [06:38 PM Sat Jul 01][root@defiant]:/var/spool/cron/crontabs > > > # ls -al > > > total 12 > > > drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 2006-05-27 11:44 . > > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2005-08-17 20:52 .. > > > -rw------- 1 mito crontab 191 2005-10-06 23:33 mito > > > > > > > > > Hope it helps! > > > > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you? > > It seems strange that a file would have an owner that is not in the > > same group as the file's group. > > The crontab executable has gid set so runs as group crontab: > > $ ls -l `which crontab` > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 26668 Mar 31 16:43 /usr/bin/crontab > > Otherwise my permissions are as above. > okay, that did it. I was at: andrew@basement:/var/spool/cron$ ls -l `which crontab` -rwxr-sr-x 1 root root 27K 2006-05-04 14:16 /usr/bin/crontab did a: chown root:crontab /usr/bin/crontab chmod g+s /usr/bin/crontab and now it works as I expect. I wonder, though, how that came to be... thanks. A
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